Abducted woman who called husband from trunk found dead

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SPOKANE, Wash. – A kidnapped Montana woman managed to call family members from the trunk of the car in which she was held, but, by the time investigators found her, it was too late, police said.

Police found the body of 47-year-old Rita Maze, stuffed in the trunk of her own vehicle which had been abandoned near Washington’s Spokane International Airport – 325 miles west of the Montana town where she had been abducted, according to the Great Falls Tribune.

Around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night – roughly two hours after she disappeared – Maze called her husband Bob Maze, and daughter, Rochelle Maze, and told them “a large man in a black hoodie” had attacked her, striking her over the head and tossing her into the trunk.